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evolving climate for gay athletes, coming up next. good evening. i'm scott schafer. welcome to "this week in northern california." joining us tonight are amy standit, and paul rogers for the san jose americay news. this week, the final snow pack measurement in the sierra confirmed what we already knew. this has been a very dry year. paul rogers, it's also been a week where we've seenen early start to the fire season, from sonoma, to southern california. i assume those things are related. >> they are, indeed. we've got a lot of dry vegetation out there right now. the snow pack on ma...

evolving climate for gay athletes, coming up next. good evening. i'm scott schafer. welcome to "this week in northern california." joining us tonight are amy standit, and paul rogers for the san jose americay news. this week, the final snow pack measurement in the sierra confirmed what we already knew. this has been a very dry year. paul rogers, it's also been a week where we've seenen early start to the fire season, from sonoma, to southern california. i assume those things are related. >> they are, indeed. we've got a lot of dry vegetation out there right now. the snow pack on ma...

sonoma, to southern california. i assume those things are related. >> they are, indeed. we've got a lot of dry vegetation out there right now. the snow pack on may 1st was 17% of normal. for this time of year, that's the lowest that it's been since 1977. and as a result, we're seeing conditions all over the state that are more similar to conditions that we see later in the summer. usually august type conditions. so we've got five or six pretty good size wildfires burning in california right now. the biggest is in ventura county near camario. luckily it hasn't really burned down many ...

sonoma, to southern california. i assume those things are related. >> they are, indeed. we've got a lot of dry vegetation out there right now. the snow pack on may 1st was 17% of normal. for this time of year, that's the lowest that it's been since 1977. and as a result, we're seeing conditions all over the state that are more similar to conditions that we see later in the summer. usually august type conditions. so we've got five or six pretty good size wildfires burning in california right now. the biggest is in ventura county near camario. luckily it hasn't really burned down many ...

even live long enough to see him get out. that was my fear walking into that courtroom. >> reporter: but instead they heard the judge vocalize what he says they have known from the start. judge robert perry said the evidence is overwhelming the shooting was an accident, and he believed oscar grant was in fact resisting before mehserle mistakenly shot him with a gun. >> the first thing he said and he emphasized this was it was never a race issue, never. and that he believed johans. it's highly emotional because be felt besieged and to hear what judge perry had to say was certainly goo...